STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The city teacher accused of saying she’d go on a machine-gun rampage inside her Brooklyn high school was simply "venting" when she made the remarks, her lawyer told the Advance last night.

Sabrina Milo, 34, of Stapleton, was released yesterday on $100,000 bail, after police charged her with making a terroristic threat at Fort Hamilton High School earlier last week.

"No reasonable person who knows Ms. Milo would have believed that she meant her alleged comments as anything but an exaggerated personal venting," said her lawyer, Andrew Stoll. "There was no real fear she meant what she allegedly said, as evidenced by the fact that everyone continued with business as usual at the school."

Ms. Milo was in a staff room at the high school, with three teachers present, when, according to police, she said she intended to smuggle in a machine gun under a trenchcoat and "settle some scores," according to published reports.

She threatened it would be "Columbine all over again," referencing the April 20, 1999, Colorado high school shooting spree in which two teens killed 13 people and themselves.

Joe MarinoArt teacher Sabrino Milo in custody in Brooklyn on Friday

Ms. Milo was arrested at the school on Friday and charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony put on the books after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that carries a maximum seven-year prison sentence.

A school district spokeswoman said Ms. Milo was hired in 2001.

The art teacher had been suspended from class late last year for an undisclosed reason, though students at the school told the Daily News that the teacher had hit a student’s hand with a ruler.

Police worried that Ms. Milo, who is married to a military veteran and JROTC teacher, might have access to guns, the News has reported. Stoll has said she has no weapons, and she needs medication.

Students have described her as eccentric, but well-regarded.

Users of the Web site ratemyteachers.com have largely given her positive reviews. All but one of the 11 reviews posted on Saturday and yesterday give her positive write-ups.

"She’s really funny, caring, always there when you need her!, yess she’s a lil weirdo but she knows where the red line is, ILOVEHER(:," wrote one user on Saturday, the day after her arrest.

As of last night, Ms. Milo apparently had not returned to her Trossach Road home.

One neighbor, Roy Roccasalvo, said he’s not worried when she does return, though he deemed her remarks inappropriate for utterance in a school, joking or not.

Ms. Milo has been ordered to stay away from Fort Hamilton High School.